Enrollment
258
Elementary
DISTRICT 363 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CCSD 62·NCES 171212001467
Orchard Place Elementary School
2727 Maple St, Des Plaines, IL 60018 · (847) 824-1255 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL258 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.1:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
171 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 44 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (37).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
38.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +19.4pp since 2023
Math
34.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +10.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 19 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.6% | 34.6% |
| 2023-24 | 19.2% | 24.2% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Orchard Place Elementary School
Orchard Place Elementary School's state test result (32.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orchard Place Elementary School this school | 258 | 66.3% | 32.1% |
| J B Kennedy Elementary School Burbank | 295 | 66.4% | 41.6% |
| Harry E Fry School Burbank | 268 | 65.7% | 36.8% |
| Sunnydale Elementary School Streamwood | 263 | 64.3% | 38.9% |
| Dan H Pietrini Elementary School Franklin Park | 242 | 67.8% | 45.2% |
| Richard Byrd Elementary School Burbank | 266 | 61.3% | 36.5% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Orchard Place Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.1% | #1,191 of 1,925 | #363 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #1,129 of 2,077 ▼ 112 | #341 of 829 ▼ 41 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #1,400 of 2,077 ▲ 198 | #488 of 829 ▲ 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 258 | #1,784 of 2,419 | #731 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.1:1 | #16 of 2,035 | #11 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.1% | #1,059 of 2,042 | #393 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.3% | #839 of 2,132 | #492 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.8% | #925 of 1,461 | #467 of 661 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
258
-7 (-3%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 354
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 258 | 32 | 8.1:1 | 66% (171) |
| 2023-24 | 253 | 33.3 | 7.6:1 | 64% (161) |
| 2022-23 | 253 | 30.1 | 8.4:1 | 62% (157) |
| 2020-21 | 265 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 286 | 29.1 | 9.8:1 | 48% (136) |
| 2015-16 | 307 | 28 | 11.0:1 | 79% (243) |
| 2010-11 | 377 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 73% (277) |
| 2000-01 | 423 | 29 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 354 | 24 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Orchard Place Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (286 to 258); teachers up 10% (29.1 to 32).
About Orchard Place Elementary School
Orchard Place Elementary School serves students in Des Plaines, Illinois, as a low-enrollment elementary school. It teaches 258 students in kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Illinois have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 32% lower.
CCSD 62 serves 4,520 students across 11 schools.
More than half of the students at Orchard Place Elementary School are Hispanic (72%). Other reported shares: 19% White, 4% Asian, and 2% multiracial. That compares with about 27% Hispanic among all Cook County residents. The diversity index for Orchard Place Elementary School is 44%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are 32 full-time-equivalent teachers at Orchard Place Elementary School, giving a ratio of 8.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. A total of 171 students, or 66%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Cook County is similar, at 66%.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Orchard Place Elementary School outscored 33%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at Orchard Place Elementary School are 1.1 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (32.1% actual, 33.2% predicted).
In Cook County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 1,406 public schools in the county, enrolling about 697,934, Orchard Place Elementary School among them.
Orchard Place Elementary School is about 0.5 miles from Iroquois Community School, its nearest public school. Orchard Place Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Orchard Place Elementary School's average proficiency of 32.1% compares with 54.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Orchard Place Elementary School falls in the City: Small locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 265 to 258, a 3% decline.
Orchard Place Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CCSD 62
- Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 658 students
- Chippewa Middle SchoolMiddle · 652 students
- North Elementary SchoolElementary · 599 students
- Algonquin Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
- Iroquois Community SchoolElementary · 411 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 322 students
Other schools in Des Plaines
- Maine West High SchoolHigh · 1,857 students
- Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 658 students
- Chippewa Middle SchoolMiddle · 652 students
- Friendship Jr High SchoolMiddle · 633 students
- North Elementary SchoolElementary · 599 students
- Algonquin Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
Nearby schools
- Iroquois Community School0.5 mi · 411
- Rosemont Elementary School1.1 mi · 221
- South Elementary School1.2 mi · 253
- Maine South High School1.3 mi · 2,494
- George B Carpenter Elementary School1.6 mi · 435
- Plainfield Elementary School1.6 mi · 285
Frequently asked questions
About Orchard Place Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Orchard Place Elementary School?
Orchard Place Elementary School enrolls approximately 258 students in grades KG-05.
Is Orchard Place Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Orchard Place Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Orchard Place Elementary School?
Approximately 8.1:1 students per teacher at Orchard Place Elementary School.
How diverse is Orchard Place Elementary School?
Orchard Place Elementary School reports a student body of 19% White, 72% Hispanic, 2% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Orchard Place Elementary School in?
Orchard Place Elementary School is part of CCSD 62.
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